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Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)

West African coastal republic, independent from France in 1960; the world's leading cocoa producer.

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Further reading

• A History of West Africa to the Nineteenth Century Basil Davidson (with F. K. Buah and J. F. Ade Ajayi) · 1966

  Regional history covering the Ivory Coast area within the western Guinea coast.

• Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010 Crawford Young · 2009

  Crawford Young's authoritative survey of fifty years of post-independence African governance situates Cameroon, Chad, and their neighbours in the continent-wide postcolonial story.

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Sources

• Wikipedia, "Ivory Coast" (en.wikipedia.org), Wikidata Q1008
• Cote d'Ivoire — sovereign state, independent 1960 (general knowledge, no dissolution event found)